Maritime Security

The article argues that India and the United States are poised to strengthen their bilateral strategic convergences, not only in the Indian Ocean but also in Pacific-Asia that lies eastwards of the Malacca Straits, and wherein India’s geo-strategic stakes as well as its military-strategic footprint are likely to increase in the coming years. This would progressively enhance the complementarities between their navies in the western Pacific and its contiguous seas, thereby enabling substantive naval cooperation towards ensuring security and stability in the broader Indo-Pacific region.

• Gurpreet S Khurana
• October 2017
• Journal of Defence Studies

The current trajectory of India–US relations is encouraging, but needs to be sustained by optimising their maritime-strategic convergence. In the maritime-configured Indo-Pacific region, the two countries could undertake substantive ‘transactions’ in the domain of geopolitics and military-strategic cooperation.

• G.S. Khurana
• September 2017
• Strategic Analysis

Since taking over in 2009, the Obama Administration considered Asia to be significant for power cooperation and for establishing an international order based on accepted rules and norms. This started the journey of a much-debated concept that was first called the ‘Back to Asia’ strategy and later re-termed as a ‘Rebalance’ or ‘Pivot to Asia’. In November 2011, then American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in an article titled ‘America’s Pacific Century’, reiterated the importance of Asia-Pacific for the United States (US).

• Sarabjeet Singh Parmar
• July 2017
• Journal of Defence Studies

India should take the lead in forming an overarching security quad along with Australia, Japan and the US in the Indo-Pacific region.

• Adarsha Verma
• July 18, 2017
• IDSA Comments

The vision document considers maritime security cooperation as a lynchpin in the MSR and attempts to redesign the existing maritime security architecture in the oceanic arena of MSR.

• Abhay Kumar Singh
• June 28, 2017
• Issue Brief

Through this white paper, China has affirmed its regional ambitions and aims to shape the regional security agenda in the Asia Pacific on its stated terms.

• Abhay Kumar Singh
• January 19, 2017
• Issue Brief

The book records the story of India’s development into a modern maritime nation ready to take on the challenges of the twenty-first century. It also tells us how India has steadily built upon its nascent capacities since the early years of independence. In doing so, it begins by giving a brief historical overview of the Indian maritime tradition.

• Surajit Mahalanobis
• October 2016
• Journal of Defence Studies

COTECMAR has emerged as a viable and innovative supplier of naval vessels to the Colombian Navy.

• Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
• October 28, 2016
• IDSA Comments

The Admiralty Bill 2016 has been in the making for nearly 30 years. It will finally become an Act of Parliament during the upcoming winter session.

• Abhay Kumar Singh
• October 03, 2016
• IDSA Comments

Regardless of the concessions Beijing is willing to offer on the NSG and bilateral issues, New Delhi has reason to continue viewing China’s maritime manoeuvres in the Indian Ocean Region with suspicion.

• Abhijit Singh
• August 19, 2016
• IDSA Comments